Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Jin declared that his justice meant punishing every evildoer without compromise, even if they belonged to a clan or village leadership. Hiruzen Sarutobi feared Jin’s extremism but let him leave, then wondered how he would act on his beliefs.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi realized Uchiha Jin had sought Sarutobi Shōtarō’s death to pursue justice for the victims, not to target the Hokage’s nephew.
• Jin told Hiruzen that anyone who broke the law, including the Hokage, must pay, and his judgment aura made Hiruzen feel exposed.
• Hiruzen asked Jin to define justice, and Jin said the guilty must be punished and the wicked killed, regardless of clan or village allegiance.
• Hiruzen warned that Jin’s absolute justice could breed hatred, but Jin argued that tolerating evil betrayed its victims.
• Jin left the Hokage’s office, and Hiruzen asked Shisui Uchiha what he thought before dismissing him and deciding to watch how Jin upheld justice.

Uchiha Jin refused the Third Hokage’s offer to join the Anbu, then rejected Shimura Danzō’s attempt to summon him to Root. Shisui Uchiha intervened to stop the Root ninja, and Jin went with him to his home, where they began talking beneath the moon.

• Uchiha Fugaku met Jin after his audience with the Third Hokage and promised that the clan would stand behind him.
• Jin told Fugaku that the Third Hokage had offered him a place in the Anbu and asked him about justice, but he had not joined.
• Shimura Danzō decided to recruit Jin into Root and considered making the Uchiha Clan a target once he became Fourth Hokage.
• Two Root ninja came to Jin’s home and ordered him to go with them, but Jin refused and activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Two Anbu intervened on the Hokage’s orders, and Shisui Uchiha revealed himself as the leader and apologized to Jin.
• Jin went to Shisui’s residence, where Shisui poured them hot water and said it had been a long time since they had talked.

Uchiha Jin argued with Shisui over the Uchiha clan’s conflict with Konoha and the Will of Fire, then learned that Shisui had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. Shisui expected admiration, but Jin saw his revelation as reckless and resolved to leave Konoha with his family someday.

• Shisui tried to persuade Jin that the clan could end Konoha’s distrust by working hard, but Jin dismissed his optimism and challenged him to explain how it would work.
• Jin reflected on how Shisui and Itachi’s choices had contributed to the Uchiha clan’s downfall, and blamed Shisui for revealing information about his eyes to Konoha’s leaders.
• Shisui secretly told Jin he had a way to resolve the conflict between the clan and village, then asked whether Jin knew about the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shisui revealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, but Jin responded with disbelief and contempt rather than admiration.
• Jin decided he would eventually flee Konoha with his mother and younger sister because he believed the village was no place for the Uchiha clan to survive.

Uchiha Jin warned Shisui not to reveal his Mangekyō ability and challenged his belief that the Uchiha and the village could coexist. Meanwhile, rumors turned villagers against the Uchiha Military Police, and Hiruzen Sarutobi considered the clan’s power but chose not to act before his retirement.

• Shisui told Jin that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and planned to use its power to ease tensions between the clan and the village.
• Jin stopped Shisui from revealing his Mangekyō ability and asked which side he would choose if the clan and village came into conflict.
• Jin left after warning Shisui that his idealism would fail, while Shisui remained convinced the clan could earn the village’s trust.
• Rumors about Jin’s treatment of Sarutobi Shōtarō spread, prompting villagers to send complaints and calls to restrict the Uchiha Military Police Force.
• Hiruzen suspected Danzō had spread the rumors, but decided against weakening the Uchiha Clan before his retirement.

Uchiha Jin met Minato Namikaze and considered how saving him from the Nine-Tails attack might change the Uchiha Clan’s fate. The chapter ended with Jin and his teammates following a young man to investigate a woman’s corpse by the river.

• Vendors feared Uchiha Jin after he had arrested and shut down the Bun Shop owner for nearly killing someone with substandard pork.
• Uchiha Jin blamed Shimura Danzō for spreading rumors about the Uchiha Clan and suspected Hiruzen Sarutobi tolerated it.
• Minato Namikaze greeted Uchiha Jin, said he needed to report to Lord Hokage, and left for the Hokage Building.
• Uchiha Jin resolved to build Minato’s trust so he could stop Obito Uchiha from releasing the Nine-Tails when Kushina Uzumaki gave birth.
• Uchiha Xi reassured Uchiha Jin that he should ignore the villagers’ rumors, and Jin appreciated her concern.
• A young man reported finding a woman’s corpse by the river, and Uchiha Jin led Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi to investigate.

Uchiha Jin used his Death-Tracing Eye to identify Hyūga Seigen as the killer of Miyamoto Nao and prepared to arrest him. When Uchiha Sumitsugu challenged his methods, Jin threatened him and continued with the investigation.

• Uchiha Jin examined Miyamoto Nao's body and saw through his Death-Tracing Eye that Hyūga Seigen had killed her with a palm strike two days earlier.
• Uchiha Jin sent Uchiha Xuan to obtain a search warrant and report the discovery, while Uchiha Xi questioned how he had identified the killer.
• Uchiha Jin joked with Uchiha Xi about her chest, then told her that eating papaya might help it grow.
• Uchiha Xuan returned with a search warrant and Uchiha Sumitsugu, and Uchiha Jin said he was going to arrest the killer.
• Uchiha Sumitsugu rebuked Uchiha Jin for acting recklessly, but Jin told him to stop lecturing and threatened him if he interfered.

Uchiha Jin arrived at the Hyuga compound with an arrest warrant for Hyūga Seigen, who had killed his housekeeper and concealed her body. Hyuga Hiashi challenged the arrest, while Seigen began considering whether to blame his Branch Family brother, Hyūga Kiyomo.

• Hyūga Seigen confessed to his grandfather that he had accidentally killed Miyamoto Nao and sunk her body in a river, while Hyūga Kiyomo had helped keep the secret.
• The Hyuga elder learned that Uchiha Jin was leading the Military Police Force and left to confront him, ordering Seigen and Kiyomo to stay behind.
• Hyūga Seigen considered making Kiyomo take the blame, and Kiyomo silently resented the Main Family's treatment of him.
• Uchiha Jin showed Hyuga Hiashi an arrest warrant for Hyūga Seigen and demanded that Seigen come with them for questioning.
• Hyuga Hiashi questioned whether there had been a misunderstanding and bristled at Uchiha Jin's refusal to defer to him.

Uchiha Jin used an arrest warrant to demand that the Hyuga hand over Hyūga Seigen for questioning, while the Hyuga Main Family decided to frame Branch Family member Hyūga Kiyomo for the killing. Kiyomo began confessing at the clan compound, leaving Seigen's fate unresolved.

• Hizashi Hyuga asked Uchiha Jin to wait while he summoned Hyūga Seigen.
• A Main Family elder challenged Jin's authority, but Jin presented an arrest warrant and insisted the Uchiha had the power to make the arrest.
• The elder returned home and decided to make Hyūga Kiyomo take responsibility for Seigen's accidental killing of the maid.
• Hyūga Kiyomo knelt before the Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force and began confessing to the killing.

Uchiha Jin questioned Hyūga Kiyomo’s confession and accused Hyūga Seigen of being the real killer. Seigen tried to dismiss Jin’s accusation as a joke, but Jin refused to back down.

• Hyūga Kiyomo confessed to accidentally killing the housekeeper, Miyamoto Nao, and dumping her body.
• Uchiha Jin stopped his team from arresting Kiyomo and asked whether he was truly the killer.
• Kiyomo insisted he was guilty rather than risk implicating his older brother, Hyūga Seigen.
• Jin told Kiyomo he believed someone else was the killer and turned to accuse Seigen.
• Seigen denied the accusation and called Jin’s words a joke, but Jin said he never joked.

Uchiha Jin identified Hyūga Seigen as the real killer and exposed the Hyuga elders’ attempt to make Hyūga Kiyomo take the blame. He left the Hyuga compound with both suspects after Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family elder yielded to avoid a larger clash.

• Uchiha Jin confronted the Hyuga elders and declared that he would not let Seigen escape justice or allow Kiyomo to be falsely blamed.
• Jin criticized Hizashi Hyuga for accepting the clan’s treatment of branch family members and rejected the Hyuga clan’s rules as a reason to protect a criminal.
• Hyuga Hiashi blocked Jin, prompting the Uchiha Military Police to ready themselves and Jin to order Uchiha Xuan to request reinforcements.
• Hiashi and the Main Family elder realized that further resistance could provoke a major armed clash and let the Uchiha take Seigen and Kiyomo away.

Hiruzen Sarutobi refused the Hyuga brothers’ request to punish Uchiha Jin, accepting that Hyūga Seigen was likely a murderer. Jin’s investigation led to Seigen’s confession, while Hyūga Kiyomo received a reduced sentence for shielding him.

• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga accused Uchiha Jin of arresting people without evidence, but Hiruzen Sarutobi noted that Hyūga Seigen had killed someone and declined to punish Jin.
• Shisui Uchiha defended Jin’s unconventional methods, and Hiruzen asked him to find out how Jin identified the murderer and how the Uchiha Clan was doing.
• Hyūga Seigen confessed to the murder after Jin questioned him, leaving Uchiha Sumitsugu astonished that Jin had solved the case from the corpse alone.
• Jin told Hyūga Kiyomo that Seigen had confessed and gave Kiyomo a one-year-and-three-month sentence for shielding an offender.
• Jin explained that Seigen received nine years after the Hyuga Clan’s actions and the victim’s family’s forgiveness reduced his original thirteen-year sentence.

Uchiha Jin returned home, reassured his sister Izumi, and told her to stay away from Uchiha Itachi because he disliked him. Over dinner, Jin said work was going well as his mother worried about his rapid promotion and growing influence in the clan.

• Uchiha Jin came home and asked Izumi whether anyone had bullied her at school.
• Izumi said no one had bullied her, but students from other classes often threw pebbles at Uchiha Itachi.
• Uchiha Jin told Izumi that Itachi deserved the bullying and warned her not to play with him.
• Uchiha Kazuna called the family to dinner and gave the fat cat a little extra food when it begged for more.
• Uchiha Kazuna asked Jin about work, and he said it was going well while she reflected on his promotion and rising standing in the clan.

Uchiha Jin reported six missing civilian Genin to Hiruzen Sarutobi and suspected someone was taking their bodies, but the Hokage assigned the investigation to Anbu. Hiruzen confronted Shimura Danzō, who took the blame while concealing the person he believed was responsible, and privately hoped Danzō was truly the culprit.

• Uchiha Xuan reported six Genin missing within a week, and Uchiha Jin ordered him to question their families.
• Uchiha Jin told Hiruzen Sarutobi that someone might be taking the missing ninja's bodies, but Hiruzen assigned the case to Anbu.
• Uchiha Jin suspected Hiruzen was shielding Shimura Danzō and considered purging the Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Shimura Danzō and confronted him with the list of missing Genin.
• Shimura Danzō stayed silent to protect the person he believed was responsible, and Hiruzen warned him not to let it happen again.
• Shimura Danzō asked when Hiruzen would retire, but Hiruzen gave no date and privately hoped Danzō had caused the disappearances.

Shimura Danzō visited Orochimaru’s laboratory, warned him to stop abducting villagers, and planned to recruit Uchiha Jin into Root. When Danzō confronted Jin after work, Jin refused and faced a circle of Root members.

• Shimura Danzō questioned Orochimaru about the disappearances, and Orochimaru admitted abducting Genin for experiments and said he had found a key to his research.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Orochimaru to use spies from other villages as subjects instead, then left the laboratory intending to recruit Uchiha Jin into Root.
• After work, Uchiha Jin noticed he was being watched on a quiet street, while Black Cat ran into Shimura Danzō and fled back to Jin for protection.
• Shimura Danzō offered Uchiha Jin a place in Root, but Jin refused and saw Danzō’s health bar billowing with black smoke.
• Shimura Danzō demanded that Jin join Root anyway, and Root members emerged to surround him as Jin activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and challenged Danzō to try.

Shimura Danzō sent Root ninja to seize Uchiha Jin, but Jin killed all four and confronted Danzō. Jin mocked Danzō’s ambition to become Fourth Hokage and left him furious, vowing that Danzō would never take the position.

• Shimura Danzō ordered four Root ninja to seize Uchiha Jin after Jin refused recruitment.
• Uchiha Jin killed the first Root ninja with a kunai and used Sharingan genjutsu and the Body Flicker Technique to kill the next two.
• Uchiha Jin killed the final Root ninja and turned his blade toward Shimura Danzō.
• Shimura Danzō accused Uchiha Jin of treason, but Jin mocked his authority and his hopes of becoming Hokage.
• Uchiha Jin told Shimura Danzō that he would cut off his head for Danzō to kick around if Danzō became Fourth Hokage.

Uchiha Jin confronted Shimura Danzō after Danzō’s men attacked him, while Orochimaru and Anbu arrived to intervene. Jin refrained from fighting Danzō but publicly mocked him until Danzō spat blood in rage.

• Uchiha Jin taunted Shimura Danzō, who prepared to attack him with Wind Release.
• Uchiha Jin sensed Orochimaru and several Anbu watching from the shadows.
• Orochimaru emerged and warned Uchiha Jin that attacking a village higher-up was unwise.
• Uchiha Jin accused Shimura Danzō of attempted murder and lamented that Konoha’s skies had gone dark.
• Uchiha Jin mocked Shimura Danzō’s appearance and Hokage ambitions until Danzō trembled and spat blood.

Uchiha Jin confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Shimura Danzō's attempt to have him killed, citing village laws and demanding punishment. Hiruzen refused to prosecute Danzō as Jin demanded, but stripped him of his advisor position and reduced Root's recruitment, while Danzō continued to believe he would become the Fourth Hokage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Jin about injuring Danzō, but Jin denied attacking him and said he had killed the disguised assassins who ambushed him.
• Orochimaru confirmed Jin had not attacked Danzō and explained that Danzō had been angered into coughing up blood.
• Jin listed Danzō's alleged crimes and demanded his authority be removed, Root dissolved, and Danzō publicly tried and executed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi defended Danzō and promised to handle the matter, while Jin and Orochimaru left the office.
• Hiruzen removed Danzō as Hokage Advisor and cut Root's annual shinobi recruitment in half, but Danzō still expected to become the Fourth Hokage.

Uchiha Jin discussed the Fourth Hokage succession with Orochimaru, then told Uchiha Fugaku that Shimura Danzō had tried to assassinate him and that Hiruzen Sarutobi had protected Danzō. Fugaku resolved to demand justice, while Jin mocked Uchiha Itachi before leaving.

• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Jin who might become the Fourth Hokage, and Jin said Orochimaru had a good chance if no incidents arose.
• Uchiha Jin returned to the Uchiha compound and visited Uchiha Fugaku, where Uchiha Itachi followed them into the study.
• Uchiha Jin told Fugaku that Shimura Danzō had tried to assassinate him and that Hiruzen Sarutobi had favored Danzō.
• Uchiha Fugaku became furious and decided to demand justice at the Hokage's Office the next day, while Uchiha Itachi worried that this would worsen the clan's standing.
• Uchiha Jin mocked Itachi for prioritizing the village and left, prompting Fugaku to ask his son whether he had provoked Jin.

Uchiha Jin rejected Shisui Uchiha’s defense of the village leadership after Shimura Danzō’s attempted murder and the Third Hokage’s lenient punishment. Shisui remained determined to change the clan’s relationship with the village and went to the clan leader’s residence with the ruling.

• Shisui Uchiha confronted Uchiha Jin after he left the clan leader’s residence and told him the Third Hokage had punished Shimura Danzō.
• Shisui argued that Danzō’s actions did not represent the whole village leadership and urged Jin to trust the Hokage’s decision.
• Uchiha Jin condemned the punishment as favoritism, dropped the ruling, and told Shisui to seek a like-minded companion in Uchiha Itachi.
• Shisui picked up the ruling and resolved to change the clan’s views, briefly revealing his Mangekyō before his eyes returned to normal.
• Shisui insisted that he was not a traitor to the clan and headed to the clan leader’s residence.

Uchiha Jin decided his younger sister needed a stricter teacher, then encountered Might Guy training in the street. The chapter ended with Guy recognizing Jin as his benefactor.

• Uchiha Fugaku listened as the elders argued over the Hokage's punishment of Shimura Danzō, while the Pro-Peace Faction urged restraint and the Hawk Faction's elders left in anger.
• Uchiha Jin trained Uchiha Izumi at home, but she pleaded to stop and went back to her room with Fat Cat.
• Uchiha Jin decided to find Uchiha Izumi a teacher and thought of someone in a green jumpsuit.
• Might Guy performed handstand walking exercises through Konoha Shopping Street while villagers watched and hurried out of Uchiha Jin's way.
• Might Guy looked up at Uchiha Jin and greeted him as his benefactor.